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Charlottesville’s Robert E. Lee statue has met its end, in a 2,250-degree furnace.
Washington Post ^ | October 26th 2023 | By Teo Armus and Hadley Green

Posted on 10/26/2023 4:40:54 PM PDT by Ennis85

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To: Ennis85
He fought for the Confederates. So it makes sense that we got rid of it. The difference is that I would let the Sons of Confederate Veterans or some organization take the statue to private property.

Everyone else, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington all were patriots. That's where I draw the line. Andrew Jackson was a flawed man. But he loved this country so that's why I support him.

Robert E. Lee was a traitor so I can't support him for that.

21 posted on 10/26/2023 4:51:19 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: Ennis85

If I’m ever near Charlottesville again, I will ask to see the Robert E. Lee statue, and when they say they melted it down, I’ll say, “I guess I’ll take my tourist dollars somewhere else then.”


22 posted on 10/26/2023 4:52:23 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (81 million votes my ass.)
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To: Ennis85

American Cultural Revolution. It’s been on for a while n

They do not even believe in the USA and they have taken over.

Election fraud coup, illegitimate regime that acts with stealth and subterfuge.

Ironically, Lee and his fan Woodrow Wilson are more like them but they were a long time ago.


23 posted on 10/26/2023 4:53:42 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Ennis85

They want to get rid of the military from the Civil War, but what about the political?

Isn’t it time this country did away with the Democrat party?


24 posted on 10/26/2023 4:54:18 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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To: janetjanet998

How does that change ONE SINGLE PERSON’S LIFE?


25 posted on 10/26/2023 4:54:29 PM PDT by Hildy (I)
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To: Ennis85

Destroying works of art is good now. Didn’t you hear?


26 posted on 10/26/2023 4:55:14 PM PDT by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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To: Ennis85

Here’s an idea: A group of peaceful, happy people:

Cannon Hinnant
Cash Gernon
Landen Hoffman
Tessa Majors
Channon Christian
Christopher Newsom


27 posted on 10/26/2023 4:56:11 PM PDT by Jim Noble (They have taken untold millions that they never toiled to earn)
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To: Ennis85

“Groups with ties to the confederacy”

Democrats.


28 posted on 10/26/2023 4:57:10 PM PDT by Celerity
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To: Ennis85

“Torch-bearing white nationalists “

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/19/charlottesville-white-nationalist-torch-marchers-indicted

https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-nationalists-torchlight-march-azov-party/28053936.html

Gee. I wonder...


29 posted on 10/26/2023 4:59:08 PM PDT by Dogbert41 (“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God” -Matthew 5:9)
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To: nickcarraway

Fahrenheit 2250.


30 posted on 10/26/2023 4:59:39 PM PDT by Round Earther
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To: Ennis85
Torch-bearing white nationalists descended on the Virginia college town

Like the swallows of Capistrano?

31 posted on 10/26/2023 4:59:45 PM PDT by silent_jonny (Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin, Joe. The feet are at the door (Acts 5:9) 9-18-21)
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To: Liberty Ship

Chairman Mao’s Cultural Revolution Comes To America


32 posted on 10/26/2023 5:00:13 PM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER REV. NIEMOLLER)
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To: CatOwner

Funny how you never have the plan to stop it from happening.


33 posted on 10/26/2023 5:01:16 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Ennis85

The left celebrates to murder of American history.

Only problem is, we can reforge a bronze statue, you flaming idiots, and place it for display on private land.

Doh!


34 posted on 10/26/2023 5:06:05 PM PDT by pacificus
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To: Ennis85

Turned into a statue of George Floyd or Lenin.


35 posted on 10/26/2023 5:08:23 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants ( "It is easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled."- Mark Twain)
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That is a commonly held view now, but it is objectively wrong.

There was no legal authority at the time that equated the secession of a state or states with treason. In fact, part of New England had attempted to secede some time before, without penalty of any kind.

While we think of the "United States" as a single entity, at the time it was simply a union of independent sovereign states. The first loyalty was to ones state. Some of that still survives in current law. Note that nobody, including Jeff Davis, was ever prosecuted for treason. Davis was held for awhile but never prosecuted, let alone convicted.

Consider that people who squawk about "treason!" at every opportunity are trampling all over a carefully negotiated peace intended to put the country back together after the war. In exchange for an oath abjuring secession, combatants were considered veterans in good standing and welcomed back into the political life of the nation. They got pensions too.

If the combatants could shake hands like gentlemen at Gettysburg, we should at least attempt to emulate them. The other way is wrong, and destructive of peace and unity.

36 posted on 10/26/2023 5:14:21 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother (Ecce Crucem Domini, fugite partes adversae. Vicit Leo de Tribu Iuda, Radix David, Alleluia!)
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To: Ennis85

Ignorant and disgusting people-no better than the Taliban terrorists. I think some cities should buy all the George Floyd statues, and the rights to all the murals of him on walls and streets-display the statues in a gallery with other historically famous criminals, declare the murals graffiti-defacing public property and paint over every one...


37 posted on 10/26/2023 5:14:46 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: Ennis85

Come Missah Taleebahn, knock down all de statue.


38 posted on 10/26/2023 5:15:14 PM PDT by jimfree (My 20 y/o granddaughter continues to have more quality exec experience than Joe Biden.)
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To: Celerity

Nanzi Pelosi gathered portraits of slave owners from the rotunda. All were Democrats. Will they be destroyed to change history, as Orwell alldes?

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”


39 posted on 10/26/2023 5:15:50 PM PDT by Does so ( 🇺🇦...................."Who is Ray Epps?" should be overstamped on every piece of currency.)
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To: blueunicorn6

The demonrat party has no place on American soil at all!


40 posted on 10/26/2023 5:15:53 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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